Israeli-Argentinian conductor Daniel Barenboim had his hopes dashed Friday after Iran’s Ministry of Culture said he will not be allowed to perform in Tehran, Haaretz reported, citing the Iranian Fars

Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday urged Iran to free Amir Hekmati, a former American Marine, from four years of “unjust detention.” Saturday marks the fourth anniversary of Hekmati’s

Israel promised following Operation Protective Edge in Gaza in summer 2014 that a cessation of hostilities would “bring quiet” to Israel and the region.  One year after the war officially

President Barack Obama on Friday addressed Jewish communities throughout North America about the deal between Iran and world powers. In the webcast, co-hosted by The Jewish Federations of North America

Democratic Senator Tom Carper of Delaware has announced support for the Iran deal between Washington, Tehran, and other global powers on Friday, according to the Associated Press, making him the thirtieth senator

After Prince Albert II of Monaco made the first official apology of his country on Thursday for its role in deporting Jews to Nazi death camps during the Holocaust, European Jewish

There’s a new, even more meaningful way to give charity to the needy. To find out what the Pantry Packers program is all about, Arutz Sheva spoke to Menachem Traxler, director of volunteering

Iran appears to have built an extension to part of its Parchin military site since May, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report obtained by the Reuters news agency

Republican presidential candidates Senator Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are teaming up in opposing the Iran nuclear deal. According to NBC News, Cruz has invited Trump to Washington for an

The Israeli public approves of Education Minister Naftali Bennett’s work more than it does Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon’s, a new poll released Thursday found. The poll, conducted by Panel Politics

Switzerland’s ambassador to Iran on Thursday called the Islamic Republic a “pole of stability” in the Middle East and urged companies to make the most of a lucrative market about

A senior American Treasury official will travel to Israel this week to discuss the nuclear deal reached between Iran and world powers with senior Israeli officials, the Treasury Department said

This Thursday marked a full year since a ceasefire was sealed between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization last August 27, bringing Operation Protective Edge to a close – but

A billboard in central Tel Aviv announcing the opening of an Iranian embassy that met with disbelief and curiosity turned out to be a hoax, organizers of the eye-catching stunt have revealed. “Opening

Analysts revealed that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) launched an unofficial war on Kurdish forces last month as a ploy to make up for its historic

Rabbi Sampson Raphael Hirsch asks the question why G-d Almighty did not destroy Amalek instantaneously as he had done to the Egyptian army at the Splitting of Yam Suf. Hashem

Parshat Ki Teitzei is the most mitzva-rich of all sedras, with 74 of the Torah’s 613 mitzvot – slightly over 12% of all the mitzvot in this one of the

Two French journalists were arrested on Thursday and remained in detention on Friday, after they tried to extort 3 million euros ($3.4 million) from Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, according to

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon condemned the increase in threats and violence against haredi IDF soldiers and their recruiters on Thursday, just after reports surfaced that dozens of threatening phone calls had been

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) was “stunned” by the “stridency and personal nature” of attacks against him, after he announced his support for the Iran nuclear deal, reported the Jewish Week

The key suspect in a 1996 bombing that killed 19 US airmen in Saudi Arabia was arrested this month at Beirut airport on arrival from Tehran, a Lebanese security official said Thursday. “Internal

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, the U.S. Representative for New York’s 12th congressional district, said Wednesday she will vote against President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. “There are strong arguments for

Haredi soldiers and recruiters are receiving threatening messages from extremists within their own community, victims revealed to the Israeli press on Thursday, as part of an ongoing incitement and hatred

President Reuven Rivlin visited Christian sites in the Jordan Valley on Thursday, and met with Church and community leaders, ahead of his upcoming visit to Italy and the Vatican next week. As

Eleven Jewish former members of Congress signed an ad in Thursday’s New York Times urging their former colleagues to support the nuclear deal with Iran. “We championed the U.S.-Israel alliance

Terrorist forces threw a firebomb at a Border Police vehicle in the neighborhood of A-Tur in eastern Jerusalem Wednesday, and succeeded in setting it ablaze. The policemen who were inside

Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders have set September 15-16 as the dates for their first congress in nearly 20 years after Chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced his resignation as head of a top executive body. The meeting

Spain public radio RNE said Thursday it had removed an episode of a program that linked Jews to Satanism from its website after receiving complaints from Jewish groups, AFP reported.

An Arizona man has been charged with supporting the Islamic State (ISIS) by helping a New York college student get terror training in Syria, NBC News reported Thursday. Ahmed Mohammed

Hamas on Thursday published a new propaganda video which, it claims, sheds new light on the circumstances surrounding the death and kidnapping of the body of IDF soldier Lt. Hadar